The year's work in Lebowski studies /edited by Edward P. Comentale and Aaron Jaffe.
Year's work in The big Lebowski studies
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, (c)2009.
- 1 online resource (xii, 491 pages) : illustrations.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction / Ins (Intrinsic Models and Influences). The really big sleep : Jeffrey Lebowski as the second coming of Rip Van Winkle / A once and future dude : The big Lebowski as medieval grail-quest / Dudespeak : or, how to bowl like a pornstar / Metonymic hats and metaphoric tumbleweeds : noir literary aesthetics in Miller's Crossing and The big Lebowski / The dude and the new left / The big Lebowski and Paul de Man : historicizing irony and ironizing historicism / Lebowski and the ends of postmodern American comedy / Found document : the stranger's commentary and a note on his method / No literal connection : mass commodification, U.S. militarism, and the oil industry in The big Lebowski / "I'll keep rolling along" : some notes on singing cowboys and bowling alleys in The big Lebowski / Outs (eccentric activities and behaviors). What condition the postmodern condition is in : collecting culture in The big Lebowski / Holding out hope for the creedence : music and the search for the real thing in The big Lebowski / "Fuck it, let's go bowling" : the cultural connotations of bowling in The big Lebowski / LebowskIcons : the rug, the iron lung, the tiki bar, and Busby Berkeley / On the White Russian / Professor Dude : an inquiry into the appeal of his dudeness for contemporary college students / Abiding (as) animal : marmot, Pomeranian, whale, dude / Logjammin' and gutterballs : masculinities in The big Lebowski / Size matters / Brunswick = Fluxus / Enduring and abiding / Endnote : the goofy and the profound : a non-academic's perspective on the Lebowski achievement / Edward P. Comentale and Aaron Jaffe -- Fred Ashe -- Andrew Rabin -- Justus Nieland -- Christopher Raczkowski -- Stacy Thompson -- Joshua Kates -- Matthew Biberman -- Thomas B. Byers -- David Martin-Jones -- Edward P. Comentale -- Allan Smithee -- Diane Pecknold -- Bradley D. Clissold -- Dennis Hall and Susan Grove Hall -- Craig N. Owens -- Richard Gaughran -- David Pagano -- Dennis Allen -- Judith Roof -- Aaron Jaffe -- Jonathan Elmer -- William Preston Robertson.
"A massive underground sensation, The Big Lebowski has been hailed as the first cult film of the internet age. In this book, 21 fans and scholars address the film's influences - westerns, noir, grail legends, the 1960s, and Fluxus - and its historical connections to the first Iraq war, boomers, slackerdom, surrealism, college culture, and of course bowling. The Year's Work in Lebowski Studies contains neither arid analyses nor lectures for the late-night crowd, but new ways of thinking and writing about film culture."--Jacket.